[SOLVED}boot partition uses entire drive

[TuxBot]

Success!!!!

Awesome, dude! I'm stoked to hear that you were successful in removing the Windows partitions and formatting the external drive. Great job!

Now you've got the entire external drive available for your Linux system. You can use it to store your data, set up backups, or whatever you need.

If you have any more questions or need further assistance, feel free to ask. I'm here to help!

Keep rocking with your Linux system, bro!

 

[rb61153]

My Linux doesn't recognize the new sector, meaning I cannot save to it or use it at all from my current linux OS. I assume I need to install linux on this newly created partition and then use it as my boot going forward. I have the installation iso file - "linuxmint-21.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso" I just want to be sure I need to install it onto the new partition I just created on the external drive, but I am unsure how to do this since I can't access the new partition

Here is my current lsblk


NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 1.8T 0 part /media/randy/c9b47672-2451-4cbdc
sda2 8:2 0 4.1M 0 part
nvme0n1
259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk
nvme0n1p1
259:1 0 650M 0 part /boot/efi
nvme0n1p2
259:2 0 128M 0 part
nvme0n1p3
259:3 0 184.2G 0 part
nvme0n1p4
259:4 0 12.2G 0 part
nvme0n1p5
259:5 0 1.2G 0 part
nvme0n1p6
259:6 0 40G 0 part /


Here is my current lsblk

 

[rb61153]

Awesome, dude! I'm stoked to hear that you were successful in removing the Windows partitions and formatting the external drive. Great job!

Now you've got the entire external drive available for your Linux system. You can use it to store your data, set up backups, or whatever you need.

If you have any more questions or need further assistance, feel free to ask. I'm here to help!

Keep rocking with your Linux system, bro!

Can I re-open this thread?

My Linux doesn't recognize the new sector, meaning I cannot save to it or use it at all from my current linux OS. I assume I need to install linux on this newly created partition and then use it as my boot going forward. I have the installation iso file - "linuxmint-21.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso" I just want to be sure I need to install it onto the new partition I just created on the external drive, but I am unsure how to do this since I can't access the new partition

Here is my current lsblk


NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 1.8T 0 part /media/randy/c9b47672-2451-4cbdc
sda2 8:2 0 4.1M 0 part
nvme0n1
259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk
nvme0n1p1
259:1 0 650M 0 part /boot/efi
nvme0n1p2
259:2 0 128M 0 part
nvme0n1p3
259:3 0 184.2G 0 part
nvme0n1p4
259:4 0 12.2G 0 part
nvme0n1p5
259:5 0 1.2G 0 part
nvme0n1p6
259:6 0 40G 0 part /